Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 21, 2004, Winnipeg, Manitoba A16 Canada / world Winnipeg free press monday june 21, 2004 dowsing locates unmarked Graves in poor farm cemeteries of . By Anthony Cooper g Greenwich . ? Richard Skinner holds two coat hangers straightened into dowsing rods As he walks slowly Over a Small Ceme Tery in the Middle of the Nova Scotia Woods. He a in a cleared piece of ground in Greenwich Kings county which is a graveyard for the poor closed in 1921 and filled with the Grassy Mounds of Sev eral dozen unmarked Graves. Each time the 74-year-old Skinner passes Over a Mound the dowsing rods Anthony Cooper / Canadian press Drift toward each other and form a Cross. Some people would say that switch Richard Skinner some people would say that a witchcraft or that a evil Craft or that a evil he says. But the Way i always explain it is How Many people Are buried Here and poor farm cemetery Skinner says. Every monday beginning on May 31 to september 6, a draw will be things have always fallen downwards where the Boundary to the graveyard the Horton township poor farm held from All entries received the previous week. Apples and so on and Isaac Newton should be. Cemetery lies within the boundaries of a to enter wrote a Law about it. Maybe someday he said he a already located Graves gravel pit in Greenwich Kings county somebody will write a Law about that Are outside boundaries sketched out at the top of a Hill behind some Railroad 1. Give us a restart Date when stopping your paper for holidays and your name will be entered once into the weekly draw. The strange technique appears to Over the years by locals trying to pre tracks. Work even when attempted by this serve the site. Until recently it was marked Only by 2. Subscribers who Stop their paper with a restart Date and donate reporter. The coat hangers Cross by Skinner is one of about 30 members of four Short posts which represent locals their papers to our newspapers in education Nie program will themselves and Ungross when there is the Kings county burial grounds care attempt 50 years ago to keep the Ceme have their names entered twice into the weekly draw. No grave Mound beneath them. Society which is trying to fix up and Tery recognizable As vegetation threat 3. Subscribers who have not stopped their paper for the previous i a not making it do that Skinner care for several so called poor farm ened to Swallow it up. Weekend can Call our customer service Centre on wednesday or says As the coat hangers Cross. Cemeteries. A walking Trail has since been Cut out thursday Between 9 . 12 noon and have their name entered the practice called grave dowsing is generations ago people who died poor of the Woods and Lafarge has put do nonce into the weekly draw. Unscientific and Skinner says he a relic and in debt and living in county run gravel on the old Wagon Trail that leads to Tant to Tell too Many people he does it. Poorhouse and poor farms were the site. To subscribe Call but at old burial grounds like this one brought by horse and Wagon to be buried that Way Skinner said people can where there is Little documentation and in nearby scrub ground often without a drive in close enough to visit. 697-7001 no grave markers a dowsing Rod is the Headstone to Mark their 1-800-542-8900 Only tool Skinner has to try to figure out mostly each township had their own ? Halifax chronicle Herald imports 2004 Chevy epic 2004 Chevy opera 2004 Chevy Aveo $279 lease for Only $189 $179 lease for Only lease for Only Domestic 2004 Chevy Malibu $290 2004 Chevy ext. Cab 4x4 2004 Chevy Impala $386 $305 lease for Only lease for Only lease for Only All leases 48 myths. Sailors a gentle lab male approx. 6-7 years of age. He is healthy and needs a Loving Home. If you Are the on y dealer interested in Sailor or any other in Canada to win unwanted dog Puppy cat or Kitten both these a w Ards please Contact the Winnipeg pet Rescue shelter Manitoba a first registered Charity no kill animal shelter at 832-pets 7387 or visit 3062 Portage Avenue. 1400 Mcphillips St. At Inkster ? 697-1400 or 1-800-465-1400 ;